Christmas Craft for Upper Elementary | Christmas Inventions Activity

With the sights, sounds, and smells of Christmas surrounding us for almost a quarter of a year, have you ever stopped to consider how all the Christmas objects and decorations actually came to be? Who invented it and when? This whole class or individual student Christmas craft (or simply a Christmas reading activity) is a great way to bring in some holiday cheer into your classroom in a new, engaging way for your 4th or 5th graders.

Incorporating this Christmas Craft into Your Classroom

Learn About One Christmas Invention a Day

Bring in a tree and each day present a new item to read about as a class and hang on the tree. When the tree is finished, you can display it outside of your classroom to let other classes (or visitors) come by and read about the inventions.

You could also incorporate these into your existing tree by hanging the items on the tree with the fact cards (or without at first and add one fact card a day as you discuss each item.)

Even if you don’t have a Christmas tree, you can incorporate the Christmas facts as a quick Christmas reading activity with each day discussing a new Christmas invention.

Create a Class Christmas Tree

Have the students bring in the Christmas items and hang them on the tree with the cards.

Have Groups or Individual Students Create Mini Christmas Trees or 3-D Posters

Each group/student can create and decorate their own Christmas Inventions trees with all of the Christmas items described in the post or with just one. You could even have one group per invention. The groups could decorate actual Christmas trees or just create a 3-D poster with a drawing of a tree and the items and the fact cards taped on the board.

Materials Needed

an artificial Christmas tree or posters if you go the 3-D poster route

Reader Interactions

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